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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1952
Page
4
A would be robber got only a pint of whisky after attempting a liquor store heist at 1187 East Anaheim Street. Thomas P Pounds and wife Dorothy confronted the bandit, who simulated a gun. Pounds wrested the bottle away with help from bystanders before the thief escaped.
Billie Shannar, an exotic dancer, faces murder charges in the fatal shooting of Alfred Rosenfield Jr. Her agent says she has received offers to perform in Texas and other states. She begins a week at the Colony Club in Dallas amid the case. Rosene Ails, 54, a night club comedian, is also charged in the shooting. Rosenfield's body was found shot last Sunday and police say Shannar was arrested in Oklahoma.
A sea-going tug finally took line on the 10,000-ton freighter Maplecove sixty miles off the Vancouver coast to steer the ship toward Race Rocks near Victoria. The 62 crewmen are to reach the pilot station around 2 am after a belated Christmas underway.
Roy E. Ronolds, a local accountant, announces a new Western Union agency contract sought with a local business firm to run the operation. The Los Angeles office confirms continued message delivery service and acceptance remains in the area as leases are set to end next month.
In Oxfordshire near Oxford England a Christmas fire in a bungalow killed six year old Jeanette Feeney and seriously burned her mother Ruth and sister Patricia while father Warrant Officer Robert Feeney escaped. The blaze followed an apparent heater explosion as the family celebrated at RAF Base. The body of Jeanette was recovered from the burned room and the others were rushed to the Burderop military hospital in Swindon for treatment.
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